OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Studies Quarterly is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Borders in Cyberspace: Digital Sovereignty Through a Bordering Lens	158
“Yes-Man” Firms: Government Campaign and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China	83
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 1945	39
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel	29
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade	28
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations	26
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?	25
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War	25
Human Shields and the Gulf War	23
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic	22
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training	21
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy	19
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment	19
Citizen Support for a European Defense Union: An International Conjoint Experiment on Security Cooperation in Europe	18
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival	17
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms	17
Introducing the Mandates of International Organizations’ Missions (MIOM) Dataset: Comprehensive Data on the Mandates of UN and Regional Organizations’ Missions, 1989–2020	17
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism	16
Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries	16
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents	16
Win-Win Deescalation	16
Capital Mobility and Taxation: State–Business Collusion in China	15
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies	15
The Effect of Interpersonal Interaction on the Expression of Anti-Foreign Sentiment: Evidence from a Parallel Survey in the United States and China	15
“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid	14

Decision by Design: Leaders, Bureaucracies, and International Crisis Performance	14
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition	13
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises	13
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies	13
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right	13
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability	13
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention	13
The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force	13
Public Support for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Conditionality in International Monetary Fund Bailouts	13
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy	12
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?	12
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations	11
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference	11
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping	11
IO Endorsements, Perceived Alignment, and Public Support for Unpopular Policies	11
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus	11
Entangled Narratives: Insights from Social and Computer Sciences on National Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures	10
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports	10
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain	10
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation	10
Immigration, Justice Remittances, and US Courts	10
Foreign Aid, Development, and US Strategic Interests in the Cold War	10
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations	10
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda	10
Correction to: Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform	9
Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict	9
Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace	9
Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations	9
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing	9
Network Context and the Effectiveness of International Agreements	9
Unpacking Legitimacy Perceptions of Investment Dispute Settlement: Effects of Outcome and Procedure	8
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework	8
Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly	8
Economic Sanctions and Food Consumption: Evidence from Iranian Households	8
Manipulating Public Beliefs about Alliance Compliance: A Survey Experiment	8
How Do Consociations Craft Asylum Policy? Lebanon’s Response to Conflict-Induced Displacement as an Exploratory Case	8
Pressed to Prolong: Conscription, the Costs of Military Labor, and Civil War Duration	8
Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization	8
Carrots as Sticks: How Effective Are Foreign Aid Suspensions and Economic Sanctions?	8
Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	7
Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies	7
Modeling Institutional Change and Subject-Production: The World Bank's Turn to Stakeholder Participation	7
What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique	7
The Gendered Peace Premium	7
Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status	7
Identifying Pathways to Peace: How International Support Can Help Prevent Conflict Recurrence	7
Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent	7
When in Debt, Appoint Women? A Re-Examination of Aid, Debt, and the Inclusion of Women in African Cabinets	7
Global Finance, Political Business Cycles, and the Politics of Foreign Reserves	7
Foreign Policy as Compensation: Why Brexit Became a Foreign and Security Policy Issue	7

Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention	6
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion	6
Is There a Religious Dimension to Concern about Farmer–Herder Conflicts in Nigeria?	6
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion	6
Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress	6
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America	6
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies	6
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations	6
Creating Status Loss: Delegitimation through Information Warfare	6
The Curse of Coercive Mediation: The Instrumentalization of External Military Support in Peace Processes and the Breakdown of Imposed Agreements	6
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?	6
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China	6
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction	6
A “Priesthood of Knowledge”: The International Thought of Henri de Saint-Simon	6
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition	6
An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument	6
Why Economic Development Does Not Diminish Religious Conflict	6
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations	6
Countermapping the Carceral Security State: Beyond the Imperial Boomerang	5
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society	5
Do International Dispute Bodies Overreach? Reassessing World Trade Organization Dispute Ruling	5
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics	5
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts	5
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites	5
Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology	5
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations	5
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance	5
Gender in International Bureaucracies: Evidence from UN Field Missions	5
The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid	5
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics	5
Strategic Humanitarianism and US Refugee Admissions after the Cold War	5
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities	5
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms	5
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports	5
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation	5
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States	5
Crime and Punishment in International Politics: On the Agency and Moral Standing of Community	5
Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash	5
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power	5